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NeverWhen and WhatMightHaveBeen

It’s late Saturday Night a long time ago, and the cable movie station is humming. TicketBox Cable is showing “Spy Hunter” starring David Soul, Markie Post, and Michael Caine as Bellamy the Spy Master.

It starts out as an international spy thriller turn on Mad Max with elements that would make John Frankenheimer’s jaw drop. But there’s a vampire twist and that’s pretty rad and everyone’s been talking about it at school.

Just before the feature starts the usual TicketBox logo has changed. Ticket Box is competing with SpotLight and Showtime.

This logo for TicketBox is darker, redder, more sinister tonight. It’s new. And it’s different. Things are changing and in that late night moment before it all kicks off, over-heated peak macho David Soul, nubile Markie Post riding a Kawasaki GPz900 in a form sucking neo-royal blue skin suit, Michael Caine in tropical whites with a patch over one eye because this is where his career is at right now… you feel like the future is coming at you fast, too fast, and it’s not as bright as the past and present have been.

Tonight won’t last.

Cable movies and popcorn, Pizza Hut and red cups of coke, baseball and Frogger on the Atari…

It’s fleeting. Gossamer. And in that lonely techno future moment of the new red logo of TicketBox you realize one day… it will all be gone. and you will be older. And everyone and everything that you know will somehow be different and not what it was supposed to have been.

A Tomorrow is coming. Uncertain. Mandala in effect.

And then that brief ennui is gone, and the movie starts. It’s Saturday night, the lights are out. You bask in the television’s soft blue glow, and out on the highway, nearing midnight, a muscle car throttles up, burning fast for the edge of town, and the darknesses beyond.

And the music begins…